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Direct linkBallenger, Cynthia – Language Arts, 2004
A focus was made on puzzling children with the help of few examples, the times when they said unexpected or surprising things or made remarks that shouldn't have been made. The way these children present their meaning in different cases and the resources they draw upon for thinking and for expression is explored.
Descriptors: Student Participation, Child Language, Child Psychology, Self Expression
Peer reviewedHall, Susan E. M. – Language Arts, 1985
Describes how kindergarten children use invented spelling to rewrite Mother Goose nursery rhymes, indicating the phoneme grapheme system the children perceived from spoken language. (HTH)
Descriptors: Child Language, Kindergarten, Nursery Rhymes, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
Peer reviewedBrause, Rita S.; Mayher, John S. – Language Arts, 1985
Describes a class project involving collaborative partnerships in which fifth graders wrote books for first graders. (HTH)
Descriptors: Books, Child Language, Class Activities, Creative Writing
Peer reviewedChapman, Diane L. – Language Arts, 1985
Describes a two-day residence in a fifth- and sixth-grade classroom of poet Arnold Adoff. Presents his interaction with five students as they struggle with their poetry writing. (HTH)
Descriptors: Authors, Case Studies, Child Language, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedBerry, Kathleen S. – Language Arts, 1985
Presents conversations of a group of fifth graders collaborating on a social studies task to illustrate how childen use language to learn. Focuses on one student whose oral language was rapid and chaotic but who demonstrated extremely sophisticated and complex structuring of knowledge to understand a particular social studies concept. (HTH)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Elementary Education
